Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Biography

Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali

  • Primary profession
  • Music_artist·soundtrack·music_department
  • Country
  • Pakistan
  • Nationality
  • Pakistani
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 13 October 1948
  • Place of birth
  • Faisalabad
  • Death date
  • 1997-08-16
  • Death age
  • 49
  • Place of death
  • London
  • Parents
  • Fateh Ali Khan

Music

Movies

Books

Awards

Trivia

Holds the worlds record (verified by the Guinness Book of World Records) for the biggest recording output by a Qawwali artist (a total of 125 albums of recorded music).

Brother of Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan and uncle of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded. He possessed a six-octave vocal range and could perform at a high-level of intensity for several hours.

His family have been musicans and singers of Qawwali (Islamic devotional music) for six centuries. Nusrats father, himself a singer, died in 1964 when Nusrat was about 16. His father had wanted his son to become a doctor because Qawwali is a very challenging style to learn. Ten days after his fathers death, Nusrat had a dream where his father came to him and told him to sing, touching his throat. Nusrat woke up singing, and gave his first public performance at his fathers funeral ceremony forty days later.

Quotes

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. .

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